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@conniptions @mekkaokereke
On top of that, there’s the fact that in the early days of CDs, labels were cranking out CDs as fast as they could, without proper care.

When you master an LP, you have to crank the high end up way to high. And many early CDs came straight off the LP master — but unlike an LP, the CDs accurately reproduced that high end!

Result: CDs got a reputation for being “crunchy” or “brittle,” when it was the masters and not the CDs that were the problem.
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